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Lonesomebri wrote:Has the Borg acquired back the meteor that they left in the Temple burn yet?

I had heard they removed the piece of it prior to the burn. And it was a meteorite.....it had already hit ground in China in the 1500s. Meteors by definition fall through the sky leaving a flaming trail as the fall, but burn up prior to hitting the Earth. Meteorites hit, cause a crater, and depending upon their composition and the velocity of their fall either vaporize or leave a fragment or fragments of the original mass.

The Chixculub meteorite that fell at the end of the Cretaceous period of geologic time vaporized on impact, for example, while the meteorite that caused Meteor Crater in Arizona scattered fragments all over.

Lonesomebri wrote:Has the Borg acquired back the meteor that they left in the Temple burn yet?

I had heard they removed the piece of it prior to the burn. And it was a meteorite.....it had already hit ground in China in the 1500s. Meteors by definition fall through the sky leaving a flaming trail as the fall, but burn up prior to hitting the Earth. Meteorites hit, cause a crater, and depending upon their composition and the velocity of their fall either vaporize or leave a fragment or fragments of the original mass.

The Chixculub meteorite that fell at the end of the Cretaceous period of geologic time vaporized on impact, for example, while the meteorite that caused Meteor Crater in Arizona scattered fragments all over.

I visited the "Kaali" crater on the island of Saarema off Estonia. hit in soft gravel, the crater is about 200' across (IIRC) and 50 or so deep, with a very high burm. you can walk past, and in the fields beyond, find several craters from fragments of it.

Once while hiking the Tonto Trail in Grand Canyon in a lightning storm I spotted small greenish-yellow glows along the ground, just like fireflies, a small soft glow for a very short moment. I finally got my flashlight on one and saw it was a centipede! Days later at the rim I had the chance to talk to a group of Rangers about this. I asked them about glowing centipedes, and, much like the answers to my meteor questions, they answered, "Yes, under a black-light scorpians glow in the dark!"

Thank you all.

That crater up near Winslow, Arizona- I snuck into it from the back once, took a bunch of gravel roads, and on the drive out passed the sheriff coming in.

"If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?"- Voltaire, Candide

In 2003, I was the site geologist for drilling activities at the Weaubleau structure, a probable impact crater south of Osceola, Missouri. It's 12 Miles in diameter, and we drilled on the edge of the central uplift. We struck a detached block of granite at 220 feet, when granite is supposed to be at 1200'.

So Rhino, did the Borg acquire back the METEORITE that they say they left in the Temple burn? Or don't you get around that much?Sorry for the confusion over meteor and meteorite, hope you can figure the question out now that I corrected my mistake for you.

"If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?"- Voltaire, Candide

Lonesomebri wrote:So Rhino, did the Borg acquire back the METEORITE that they say they left in the Temple burn? Or don't you get around that much?Sorry for the confusion over meteor and meteorite, hope you can figure the question out now that I corrected my mistake for you.

They took it out of the effigy before the burn. So say my sources from the Black Rock Beacon.